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morriss00... morriss00...
 
M$1 April 22, 2009 06:36 PM

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the US. What question would you have liked to have asked him?

He created the spoils system which led to massive corruption in the bureaucracy and ignored the Supreme Court forcing Native American tribes to endure the Trail of Tears.
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albanian albanian
 
 April 22, 2009 10:25 PM
Would you really have burned New Orleans to the ground if you had been forced to retreat?
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• I had never heard of this, or I had forgotten this. The Trail of Tears is a good question, but this was more original.


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April 22, 2009 07:12 PM
What is your favorite country ?

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albanian albanian
 
April 23, 2009 02:40 AM
I don't understand this answer at all. Why do you suspect he would say anything other than the United States? He was elected president. He was born in the US and lived there all his life. He never even visited a foreign country, unless you count leading an invading army into Spanish Florida. I don't see any reason for this question.

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April 23, 2009 02:54 AM
Mr. Jackson, when you promoted the Indian Removal Act you said:

"It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and Christian community."

Given the ensuing Trail of Tears and the discrimination and wars of annihilation faced by Native Americans since then, do you still believe that the Indian Removal Act was in the best interest of the Cherokee people?

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http://www.allthingscherokee.com/articles_culture_events_020201.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html


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albanian albanian
 
April 23, 2009 04:00 AM
He clearly never believed what he said in that speech. He was an all-around cold-blooded bastard who hated Indians. His whole career demonstrates that.

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dannyisme dannyisme
 
April 23, 2009 05:00 AM
Actually, if you check the source I gave, he was considered a hero by the Cherokee at first, for siding with them against the Creeks.

"So why is Jackson so disliked by the Cherokee? Oddly enough, at one point the Cherokee were allies with Andrew Jackson. It was at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend where Andrew Jackson's famous story really began. He was considered a hero after his victory in this battle against the Creek Indians, a victory he would not have attained had it not been for his Cherokee allies who fought alongside him."

He may have been racist in 21st century terms, but he presented himself as acting in the interests of the Indians in early 19th century terms. It would interest me to hear him elaborate on that apparent contradiction.

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albanian albanian
 
April 23, 2009 11:12 PM
I believe that the Cherokee liked him when they fought alongside him. Jackson fought alongside pirates too and they liked him then. The city of New Orleans made him its hero when he won the battle; but, he had planned to burn the city to the ground if he was forced to retreat. He was a hard and bitter man. That's why they called him Old Hickory.

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